Posted by Richard Lynch on 10/04/43 11:07

Nuzzo Art-CINT116 wrote:
>> Possible work-around:
>> I suspect that
>> $p1[14] = "-0.15" + 0;
>> will do what you want, since the leading 0 will probably
>> trigger the regex properly.
>>
>> Try it and see.
>
> Changing it to -0.15 + 0 works. This data is actually coming from a
> numeric field in an Oracle database using the OCI interface so I am not
> sure why it's a string instead of a number but that's a separate issue I
> need to look into.

I'm not certain about OCI or others, but generally PHP database extensions
retrieve all data as text...

At least, the last time I checked on that, that's what it was...

Could be wrong or out of date.

Rarely worry about data type in PHP, once you understand the type juggling
and conversion rules.

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